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As an aid to any men who are forced to leave College suddenly, janitors will take care of sending home, collect, trunks or packages left by the students, provided they are well prepared and marked.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hanford Planning E.R.C. Departure | 1/27/1943 | See Source »

The man moving was the man likeliest to be killed. Those who were motionless in the New Guinea jungle were Japanese. Those who moved were Americans and Australians. The Japanese had cut down coconut palms, roofed their pillboxes with tree trunks, piled the roofs high with sand-filled rice bags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Movers & Moved | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

>When he was 29, a girl complimented him on the beauty of his feet. Says he: "I jumped up, my mind clouded by an odd feeling of jealousy toward myself . . . knocked [my admirer] down and trampled on her with all my might." In the same year, suffering from uncontrollable fits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Not So Secret Life | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

Died. Joseph Francis Anthony Hagan ("Philadelphia Jack O'Brien"), 64, light-heavyweight champion of the early 1900s; after a prostate operation; in Manhattan. He lost his ring fortune speculating in real estate, turned to bodybuilding, ran famed gyms in Philadelphia and Manhattan. Unknown in the U.S., he went to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 23, 1942 | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

At Rollins, where he scandalized folks by going swimming in white trunks, and at Black Mountain, where he used to take long walks in the woods with an escort of five dogs, roly-poly Professor Rice cut a slightly comic figure. But there was nothing comic about his mind. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brilliant Critic | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

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